No matter what NFL Hall of Famer Dan Fouts was saying on Sunday's broadcast or how many Tannehill passes the Texans tipped at the line – six by the Dolphins' count – Tannehill's throwing motion isn't the issue here.

All six tipped passes, by Sherman's accounting, came on three-step drops.

Philbin suggested Tannehill at times needed to pull the ball back down and "find the right throwing lane," although Sherman said J.J. Watt got at least a couple of his four batted passes on pass-rush twists.

"The quarterback would have never seen him anyways," Sherman said.

There was more talk from Philbin about offensive linemen needing to do more to neutralize long-armed defensive linemen, although center Mike Pouncey said position coach Jim Turner basically told them to keep doing what they're doing.

So, there's a bit of intrigue to the whole issue.

Take, for instance, those 19 tipped passes Tannehill reportedly had during his final season at Texas A&M. That's a ridiculously high number, especially when eight of them were intercepted.

Andrew Luck had two passes tipped last year at Stanford (with Jonathan Martin at left tackle).

Even shrimpy Russell Wilson had just two passes tipped last year at Wisconsin.

And yet, when confronted with the figure for Tannehill from their time at A&M, Sherman brushed it aside, saying only three of them were deemed his "fault," whatever that means.

"I don't think that's going to be a problem," Sherman said. "He hasn't had a problem with it in practice."

If there was a finger to point anywhere, Sherman said, it should be pointed at him.

"I'll take the blame for it," he said. "I should have prepped him better for this than I did."

However, the more Sherman talked, the more you realized Tannehill is going to have to prove he can get his short passes beyond the line of scrimmage before we can all stop talking about this.

"It's definitely something we're looking at hard and checking where he's putting his eyes," Sherman said. "I think it's something we have to address. This isn't going to just go away."

While the Texans are the game's best at disrupting passes at the line, the Raiders aren't nearly as skilled in that area as they were in the days of Charles Philyaw, Lyle Alzado and John Matuszak.

So that should help.

So would calling fewer three-step drops and getting Tannehill out of the pocket more on rollouts and bootlegs.

Let the former wide receiver use some of that athletic ability instead of keeping him locked down in the panic room.

Allow him to let loose with a few more deep and intermediate balls, too, after Pro Football Focus had him sending just 29 of his 36 attempts more than 10 yards downfield.

It would help, of course, if somebody on this team could actually stretch the field, but that's another story.

For now, everyone should just relax and let Tannehill work this thing out, along with all the other hurdles he'll face in this rebuilding year.

"One thing I know about Ryan, he corrects himself, he's accountable," Sherman said. "He fixes things. He's very conscious of what he needs to work on. He'll be much better next week."